Registry to Improve Depression Management

Project Goal: To provide patients with evidence-based treatments to treat their depression "to target": a 50% reduction in their baseline PHQ-9 score.

Palliative Care Integration Into The Clinical Care of Advanced Congestive Heart Failure

Project Goal: To improve quality of care and outcomes for advanced heart failure patients by integration of Palliative Care specialty service into routine treatment.

Optimizing Physician Use of the Electronic Health Record

Project Goal: To develop a learning ecosystem to improve physicians’ achievement and maintenance of electronic health record (EHR) skill competency in a sustainable way and improve physician satisfaction with the EHR support we deliver to them.

Improving Patient Satisfaction Outcomes through Better Hearing

Project Goal: To improve communication between providers and hearing-impaired adults in clinical settings.

Impacting Safety & Quality in Chronic Pain Management

Project Goal: To reduce the number of patients at risk for overdose by enhancing infrastructure that tracks and facilitates safe, appropriate opioid prescribing in three primary care clinics.

Developing a Whole Person Health Score

Project Goal: To improve whole person care for individuals and populations by creating a universal "whole person health score" that aligns all stakeholders in a common vision and goal.

Leveraging an Integrated Health Care System to Improve Quality of Care by Reducing Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections

Project Goal: To adopt and share regional best practices on Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) prevention, minimize clinical care variation across the Kaiser Permanente facilities, and decrease the volume of CAUTI cases per year by 20% while improving patient care experience.

Can Care Integration Improve Clinical Outcomes for Diabetics?

Project Goal: To improve the health outcomes of uncontrolled diabetics through a coordinated multidisciplinary approach to education and care.

Integrating Oral Health into Pediatric Care for 0-2 Year Olds

Project Goal: To support Alameda Health System sites to offer preventive dental services where young children receive primary care.

Implementing a Pre-Operative Screening Pathway to Identify Mild Cognitive Impairment

Project Goal: To utilize a standardized care path to identify patients and minimize the deleterious impacts of the surgical episode of care for patients over age 65, with identified mild cognitive impairment.